Imagine if Cassavetes came up with Twin Peaks but had to write it in a weekend.
The production and direction and even performances in Out of the Blue leave a lot on the table but still... This is startling, felt stuff.
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Performance 1970
Nearly lost me with the cosmic gumbo of the first act; I was sure this was going to be some Alphaville BS. But then Performance totally brought me back in, became more tranquil and decipherable as it slipped into shroom frenzy. It's possible this is the best shrooms movie out there. Such a sad, cinematically familiar place to set a trippy awakening. James Fox is excellent as a doomed man who's finally in his last moments come alive.
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Mickey 17 2025
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Strong three! Fun performances (Tim Key!) and imaginative world building. In service of one of the more confused BJH satires.
A particularly telling bit for me: How often we return to the touchstone question of What is it like to die? In context, this is toothless. Mickey doesn't know! He doesn't get to remember that part. His memories are reloaded from like a week before. These are supposed to be some of the most sincere moments of the movie... but…
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Licorice Pizza 2021
This movie is all about its setting, that privileged window of time where life can feel open and just for you, where your possibilities dilate and collapse because of how a certain person might look at you. This can be a difficult and delicate place to set a story, because naive characters invite melodrama and insincerity. Licorice Pizza instead lands in that setting like a scoop of ice cream in soda, sinking and bobbing around and kicking up rich, sweet foam.
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